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Well, if you are interested in the new Unigine games coming out, you might want to go for a Radeon HD 5xxx series card. Many people don't know this, but ATI has had hardware tesselation since the HD 2xxx series, and it has been speced in OpenGL since the early 2000s. Anyway though, the 5xxx series has MUCH faster tesselation. I have a Radeon HD 5750 (way overclocked though) and I have been very happy with the performance.

the tesselation unit in hd2000-4000 isn't openGL4 compatible and this oldstyle trueform tesselation unit in 2000-4000 is just broken for unigine in generall.

your talking isn't so smart because in unigine2 nvidia is the clear winner because the benchmark is 100% nvidia focused.

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Power consumption? How well does power consumption work on ATI cards? Is it working close to the same as Windows? I believe it's not so great when using open source drivers, correct?

My point is, you're making compromises left, right and center, aren't you? So, when you bash Nvidia for power, I am wondering if it at least works since you're using the dreaded blob?

I think power consumption is pretty important, just as much as some other features you' want and this is especially true for laptop users. But, nowadays, video manufacturers are trying to boast having the best with the latest and greatest so you want good power efficiency with your card and for it to work.

If it works with the ATI binary but then you want to use the open source driver, what do you do?